An emotional short film produced by BBC's 'The Social' has expressed what it can be like to experience homophobia while in public with your partner - exploring "whether pressures of convention turn us against one another".
Titled Time for Love, the four-minute film was created as part of a program nurturing up-and-coming Scottish talent and focuses on the moment a man - a poet - decides whether or not to kiss his partner goodbye in a Glasgow park.
Referring to himself as a “walking meal for the mouths of normality”, the poet proceeds to detail the myriad possible repercussions of kissing his partner in a public space - including being confronted by a heterosexual couple and older man.
A still from the short film. Source: BBC's The Social
“Normality is a crowd-sourced fantasy,” the poet says.
He continues: “I should be holding a hand, but I’m holding shame instead."
Detailing "why a goodbye kiss is no walk in the park", the film has gone viral since being uploaded to the BBC's main Facebook page, with over 2 million views.
You can watch the short film below:
